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QNAP Systems Patches Critical Vulnerability

Data Breach Today

Taiwanese Hardware Manufacturer Fixes Improper Authentication Flaw QNAP Systems on Saturday released a patch for a critical bug that allows unauthorized access to devices without authentication.

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How to activate multifactor authentication everywhere

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How to activate multifactor authentication everywhere. The impact of not having multifactor authentication (MFA) activated for all users is now well known by enterprises. Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation 2021 Report indicates that over 80% of breaches evolve phishing, brute force or the use of lost or stolen credentials.

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A Threat to Passkeys? BrutePrint Attack Bypasses Fingerprint Authentication

eSecurity Planet

Security researchers recently published a paper detailing an attack they say can be used to bypass smartphone fingerprint authentication. An attack like BrutePrint could present a significant threat to passkeys , an increasingly popular way to replace passwords with authentication methods like fingerprint authentication or face recognition.

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Accelerating Data Security and Manufacturing Production for Medical Sensors by 20x with nTropy.io and Thales

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Accelerating Data Security and Manufacturing Production for Medical Sensors by 20x with nTropy.io Each device relies on wireless data transmission to relay collected data back to the patient’s phone or other monitoring tool. Unfortunately, wireless data is notoriously vulnerable to hacks and exploits.

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Access:7 flaws impact +150 device models from over 100 manufacturers

Security Affairs

. “Access:7 could enable hackers to remotely execute malicious code, access sensitive data or alter configuration on medical and IoT devices running PTC’s Axeda remote code and management agent.”reads The platform allows remote access and management of connected devices to manufacturers through an agent is installed on devices.

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Manufacturing needs to adopt a Zero Trust approach to mitigate increased cyber threats

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Manufacturing needs to adopt a Zero Trust approach to mitigate increased cyber threats. Long gone is the time when manufacturing systems and operations were siloed from the Internet and, therefore, were not a cybersecurity target. Thu, 10/20/2022 - 06:20. Survey’s key findings. Cyberattacks increase.

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MY TAKE: New tech standards, like ‘Matter’ and ‘BIMI,’ point the way to secure interoperability

The Last Watchdog

This is precisely what the consortium of software companies and device manufacturers, led Google, Amazon and Apple, set out to achieve when Matter was conceived four years ago. Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. This same approach really could be applied to other industries.

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